Cheryl Townsend Gilkes
"Connections and Voices:
Translating W.E.B. Du Bois’s
Feminism for the 21st Century”"
March 4, 2008
noon–2 p.m.
Endeavour Room, Student Union
March 4, 2008
6-8 p.m.
Atrium, Millett Hall
Free & Open to the Public
No Tickets Required
CHERYL TOWNSEND GILKES (Pronounced “Jillks”) is the John D.
and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of African-American Studies and
Sociology and director of the African American Studies Program at Colby
College in Waterville, Maine. She is also assistant pastor for special
projects at the Union Baptist Church (Cambridge, Massachusetts).
Dr. Gilkes holds degrees in sociology from Northeastern University
(B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) and has pursued graduate theological studies at
Boston University’s School of Theology. Her research, teaching, and
writing have specially focused on the role of African American women
in generating social change and on the diverse roles of black Christian
women in the 20th century. She is currently at work on several projects,
one of which is tentatively titled I’m Building Me a Home: The Black
Church as a Cultural Production. She has lectured and presented papers
at colleges, universities, and scholarly conferences in the United States,
Canada, Germany, England, and South Africa.
Dr. Gilkes is active in several scholarly organizations, holding leadership
positions in the American Sociological Association, the Association of
Black Sociologists, the American Academy of Religion, the Society for
the Study of Social Problems, and the Eastern Sociological Society.
Some of her essays and articles are gathered in her book If It Wasn’t
for the Women: Black Women’s Experience and Womanist Culture in
Church and Community (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2001).
Several of her journal articles have been reprinted in anthologies, such
as African American Religious Thought: An Anthology, edited by Cornel
West and Eddie Glaude (Philadelphia: Westminster John Knox Press,
2004). Her published sermons have appeared in The African American
Pulpit and elsewhere.
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